So, as some of you know, I've been thinking about building a Pismo completely from scratch. I think it will be a cool project. Of course, I need a parts list and some general guide. Other than that, any suggestions and/or comments?

As a shamless Pismo lover (I use mine instead of my G4 1.2 GHZ iBook) I am very interested, what, exactly do you mean? Part by part, to build a stock/upgraded Pismo or using the Pismo case with more modern "guts"?

Obviously you will need a hard drive, RAM (PC100 or 133 SDRAM) and your choice of optical drive to fit in the module. And screws to hold it all together.If I have missed out any parts, they will mostly be included with one of the other parts on my list.

Upgrade Options are as follows:G4 CPU up to 550MHz or so;G3 up to 1GHz or so;RAM up to 1GB;Hard Drive up to 128GB I suspect;Will happily run a DVDRW;PCMCIA Expansion;Not sure if you can overclock the Rage128 GPU or not;High-Capacity Battery;

Should get you started at any rate.

Probably would be too pricey at the moment, and the biggest one I found was only 1GB, but I have been wondering about using a PCMCIA flash card to boot OS X on an older PowerBook. I figure 8GB of flash would give you a nice big, fast scratch disk.

As a shamless Pismo lover (I use mine instead of my G4 1.2 GHZ iBook) I am very interested, what, exactly do you mean? Part by part, to build a stock/upgraded Pismo or using the Pismo case with more modern "guts"?

I mean part by part, sir. All the way!

Pretty daunting, but I think it will be fun. I'm going to be asking for everybody's help on here because, in all honesty, I've never touched a Pismo but I love them to death...

Thanks for the list. I'll make that my starting point. Right now I'm cruising on eBay and comparing part prices. I want this to be as cheap as possible.

Eventually, I want it completely upgraded. It would be cool if I could get the now defunct G3/1GHz, but they're super rare and super expensive. I would like that to be an eventual goal. If not, I'll get the G4

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